Blane Smith Email & Phone Number

Laporte TX

• Sales Representative, Food Service Beverage Division, Pepsi Cola BottlingHouston, TX 9/07- Present
• Managed high volume restaurants in the Greater Houston, Clear Lake, Galveston, and Freeport areas. Responsible for customer service for over 550 restaurants and opening new locations. Instrumental in marketing and.
• Executed innovative marketing techniques and strategies to surpass the market expectations by increasing sales to a margin of 6% in 2012.
• Provided customer oversight of responsible areas in an effort to ensure customer services, interface and ensure quality service was provided.
• Generated sales revenue in three selling areas to achieve a growth margin of 4% in a challenged economy.
• Lead the team in developing an efficient process for capturing new restaurants within the Galveston, Pearland and the Greater Houston area.

Laporte TX

• Marketing Unit Equipment Schedule Manager, Houston, TX 4/02 – 9/06
• Managed and scheduled routing for all equipment installations and retrievals teams for the entire Texas and Louisiana areas
• Responsible for six fountain installers and four vendor/coolers make ready teams in Houston
• Directed logistics and coordination of arrival and departure of transferred equipment from outlined areas to the Houston Marketing Units

Laporte TX

• Pepsi Bottling Company, Territory Sales Manager/Full Service Vending, Houston, TX 10/97 – 4/02
• Managed a team of personnel, consisted of 14 route drivers. Scheduled daily routing assignments, scheduling, administrative duties, and monitoring of trade loss and deposits.
• Performed audits of routes and the accounting departments, addressed staffing issues, performance appraisals and reprimands.
• Developed team schedules to ensure quality assurance oversight was provided to the vending business.
• Build strong team and customer relations by mentoring and coaching of newly hired personnel and customer transfers.
• Established training plans to ensure all team members were properly trained and certified to operate handheld machines.

Laporte TX

• Pepsi Bottling Company – Territory Coordinator Houston, TX 10/95 – 1097
• Responsible for ensuring the delivery of product to the customers on a daily basis
• Performed administrative duties associated with managing team personnel, 15 route drivers, 10 sales representatives and 24 merchandisers. Coordinated scheduling sales routes, display activities for sales.
• Provided Safety and Vehicle training to all personnel to ensure the D.O.T. and Safety regulations were adhered to. Monitored and assisted in the route drivers daily deliveries.

Laporte TX

• Pepsi Bottling Company – Account Representative Houston, TX 1990 – 1995
• Provided customer interface to present creative ideas to promote profit for both the customer and the business.
• Managed and maintained 30, two million plus store chains (Kroger’s and Randle’s) and 142 independent chains within the greater Houston area.